Bahawal Khan

Bahawal Khan (born 1979), also known as Salahuddin Ayyub, is the leader of Maulvi Nazir's Taliban faction since the man's death in 2013.

Biography
Bahawal Khan was born in 1979 in Pakistan, and was an illiterate bus driver before joining Maulvi Nazir and the Taliban before the 2001 United States invasion. After the death of Nazir in 2013, Khan was made the new leader of his Taliban faction at his funeral, backed by clerics and tribal elders. His hot temper was unlike Nazir, but he was peaceful in the consolidation of his rule around Wana.